Word: prune
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...case, Powell insisted that his prerogatives had not been severely curtailed but only slightly "pruned." And, the chairman observed hopefully, "You know what happens to plants when you prune them? They grow even stronger...
...easier to keep a trainee interested in mastering a diesel engine than in shunning split infinitives. The services have been far ahead of public schools in the use of training films, overhead projectors, programmed instruction, individual audio aids, and closed-circuit television. Under McNamara, they have been pressured to prune all nonessential information from their training programs to increase efficiency-and the pruning works. When superfluous material was cut out of a communications repair course at Fort Knox, the rate of flunk-outs dropped from...
...newspaper does not die suddenly. It is slowly consumed by disease that spreads throughout the structure. First it loses a vivid editor, then its best reporters, then its power to lure talent and youth. It dies because advertising shrinks and economies prune live branches with the dead wood; it dies because unions want more money and it has none to give. Yet it dies hard, lingering on until even the stubbornest owners realize that the only answer is a mercy killing...
...another visit to the U.N. (one of her favorite haunts) she examines the employee bulletin board and discovers such gems as "meeting of the U.N. Folk Dance Club on folk dances of France, with Mme. Olga Tarassova," then retires to the cafeteria, where she meets a young Indian eating prune yoghurt and listening to a baseball game via transistor radio. "Two to one, Kansas City," he says gloomily...
...must be worked out in a very few months, by a new Gen Ed Committee, the chances are that it will turn out to be an administrative hash. Not enough time will be offered to Faculty members to create new courses, and not enough to the committee to prune less-worthy courses from the upper-level offerings. Its installation should be postponed for a year...